ANIL KUMAR MENON

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Director of Technology

Technical Solution Delivery – Enterprise Solution Architecture - Strategic IT Planning & Analysis - Project Management

Enterprise Architecture

IT Solutions Development

Database Management

Regulatory Compliance

Data Governance/ Modeling

Risk/Change Management

Vendor Management

Stakeholder Relations

Strategy/Process Development

Team Building & Leadership

Accomplished leader and Enterprise Solution Architect with extensive experience directing geographically distributed teams, devising long-term strategic plans, and implementing IT initiatives to drive organizational transformation and enhancing the productivity of under-performing areas.

Proficient in implementing data governance, building a data architecture, data security controls, audit for compliance/regulatory requirements and insights for analytical purposes. Track record of conceptualizing and implementing robust plans, administering MM$ budgets, allocating/utilizing technical resources, and mitigating operational risks.

Demonstrated expertise in TOGAF framework, scope development, requirements analysis, application, data and technology architectures, resource coordination, while leading complex and large-scale technical projects within strict timelines, budget, scope, and customer requirements.

Articulate communicator; adept at fostering relationships with key partners and building consensus across multiple organizational levels to achieve designated business goals.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NCR CORPORATION INC. Omaha, NE 11/2011 - 08/2020

Director of Technology – (Retail Merchandise, Supply Chain, Hospitality, Consulting)

Orchestrated executive-level leadership in GEMS organization to tactfully partner/network with business and share ownership for business strategy and business value outcomes by leveraging design thinking principles. Collaborated with 3rd party vendors and customers in wholesale and retail industry segments to strategize and transform baseline applications/architecture to target architecture/technologies with minimal operational disruption. Collaborated with System Admins to establish network and firewall rules.

Spearheaded the transformation of legacy IBM Power Systems ERP applications to SaaS (OMS, WMS, TMS, EDI, Hospitality (Recipe Management), Inventory, Mobile, Pricing/Promotions) by implementing new application, data (OLTP and OLAP) and technology architectures and implementation governance for the organization.

Primary Enterprise Architect in delivering customer blueprint for the strategic roadmap for next-generation distributed retail and supply chain online/eCommerce solutions for the customers’ ecosystems leveraging TOGAF framework. Devised innovative algorithms to auto-recover applications and implemented application/data security framework.

Designed the data model, data warehouse schema and data governance for the new platform based on business objectives, 3rd party sources, data analytical needs, and ownership

Designed microservices, ETL interfaces to Google cloud microservices to process a multitude of real-time and batch records via Saga Orchestration and Streaming patterns.

Designed and deployed the latest cross-platform cloud-based Master Data Management application, microservices, Application Security framework, and Data Governance for managing Retail Merchandise and Supply Chain domains of the food industry; this reduced new development by 80% leveraging extendable data model complemented with a drag-n-drop user interface. Defined microservices swagger definitions.

Managed both on-shore and off-shore development teams of size 10-100. Built org structure and processes for the efficient functioning of teams. The teams were trained on the objectives and appropriate technologies were selected based on the results from proof of concept.

Supervised product pipeline development, Agile methodology, automated testing, established CI/CD pipelines, and change management processes. The deployment used Java, .Net, JSON/XML, Kafka, Google Compute engine for some applications, Google Kubernetes, Google Pub/Sub, and Google Cloud Storage for large files. Google Apache Beam was used to create pipelines that were processed by Google Dataflow.

Accomplishments

Developed and presented strategic execution and resourcing plans to meet business objectives. Established Data governance, team structure, training, coaching.

Innovated an extensible data model allowing customers to dynamically enrich their data without compromising the core applications (mobile, eCommerce & SaaS) performance.

Slashed support and maintenance costs by 80%, which saved several hundreds of thousands of dollars in labor. Built a complex highly scalable platform that can process over 10MM requests/day over 5+ billion records in a hybrid/Google cloud environment.

Managed resource budgets of $10MM to $15MM per year along with customer-funded projects. Oversee vendor contracts to outline SLO/SLIs and SLA negotiations for the management and supervision of relationships. Measure KPIs/metrics to achieve business goals.

Received R&D excellence award from NCR and Power Mobile Implementation award from NAFDA.

NAU COUNTRY LLC. Council Bluffs, IA 04/2009 to 11/2011

Director of Technology - (Insurance)

Led all efforts of strategically partnering with business and share ownership for business strategy and business value results.

Developed scalability of applications to grow the company via rejuvenation of applications with .Net, SOA, WPF, WCF, and Oracle(PL/SQL). Established vision, Data Governance, and directed projects in alignment with expectations of business strategies via Agile methodology; established CI/CD pipelines and change management. Coordinated teams on utilizing innovative and cutting-edge approaches with effective resource allocation and strategic planning. Collaborated with System Admins to establish network and firewall rules.

Spearheaded IT strategic and operational planning as the primary Enterprise Architect to accomplish corporate goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing IT initiatives, and coordinating technology and infrastructure evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future IT systems exceeding multi-million dollars per year.

Managed a highly skilled team of architects, developers, QA and BA to diagnose capability gaps, data analysis, and transition plans.

Accomplishments

Re-platformed the insurance applications and authored innovative self-healing OLTP algorithms that prevented $10MM - $25MM of premium dollars in USDA penalties.

Received compliments from USDA for achieving SLA compliance 15% above the industry average. Introduced Geographical Information System (GIS) technologies and appropriate data architecture for online electronic mapping of insurers farmland.

Established Data governance, team structure and asset management.

SOGETI USA LLC Omaha, NE 07/1997 to 04/2009

Director of Delivery – (Supply Chain, Insurance, Transportation, Consulting)

Collaborated with the leadership team in formulating strategies, application/data governance framework, client contracts, solution strategies, and vendor selection process. Created and implemented application and data architectures for customer solutions.

Steered design and implementation of OLAP application with Teradata as the data warehouse aimed at improving efficiencies of business processes and data analytics in estimating transit time for railroad cars at Union Pacific Railroads.

Administered stabilization of Hewlett Packard's ERP supply chain applications (EDI, OMS, Fulfillment, Financial). Leveraged ITIL principles to enhance responses to incidents. Designed and implemented a scalable online ordering and configuring application (Encore) for Hewlett Packard with a middle tier API service processing XML payloads.

Designed insurance application modules (policy processing, acreage, claims processing) and designed modules to merge data due to M&A. Improved the efficiency of the premium calculations.

Accomplishments

Stabilization of HP’s ERP supply chain platform gained a net savings of $9M in three years while managing large on-shore and off-shore teams.

Amplified accuracy of insurance premium generation programs, that saved more than $7MM for American Agrisurance. Designed Data model to accommodate data from M&A.

Secured savings of $1B+ across Union Pacific RailRoads customer base and $100MM for Union Pacific RailRoads as a result of this OLAP application.

Established Data governance, team structure and collaborated asset management.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN - Champaign, IL, USA

MBA: Business Administration

UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI, Mumbai, India

Bachelor of Computer Engineering: Computer Engineering

Certifications

Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect – 2020 – 2022

Coursera - Google Kubernetes Engine Certified

Project Management Professional – 2007 – 2023

Six Sigma and Lean in the Organization – 2014

Design for Six Sigma in the Organization – 2014

Awards

Technological Merit Award from NCR - 2017

ACE Consultant award - 2002, 2003, 2004

Achievement Incentive Program Award from Union Pacific Railroad – 1998

Technical Skills

Kubernetes, Docker, IBM MQ, Cloud Storage, Cassandra, Neo4j, CouchDB, KAFKA, SOLR, Hazelcast, Java, R, .Net, HTML5, JSON, XML, Selenium, Linux, Angular JS, Cloud SQL, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Jenkins, Sonar, WhiteSource, Coverity, MS Project, AgileCraft, JIRA, Confluence, Sharepoint, Tableau, ERwin

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